December 06, 2010

What an odd season. Three in season coaching changes, Peyton Manning becoming an interception machine and who would have thought that the Derek Anderson signing would have turned out the way it did (oh right, nevermind).

I'm not surprised if this has happened. With the possibility of a lockout around the CBA if you don't make the change now then any off-season firing could leave the new coach with zero time to work with the players.

Doing it now at least lets an interim coach audition for the role and put his stuff in place if he turns out to be worth a long term opportunity.

Worth noting Pat Bowlen's role in this. Hopefully for Denver fans' sake, he won't continue helping the rest of the league by providing on the job vetting of youngsters who are nowhere near ready to be head men.

I wonder how McDaniels was able to suppress the snotty, clueless side of his personality when he was rising through the ranks on Belichick's staff. I can picture Belichick being able to tolerate arrogance but not outward combativeness and reckless idiocy.

I thought it was a terrible move for the Jaguars to pass up Tebow and draft Tyson Alualu instead. But Alualu and fellow DT Terrence Knighton have eight sacks this season, giving the Jags a desperately needed pash rush.